ABSTRACT Grid-Integrated Vehicles (GIVs) are plug-in Electric Drive Vehicles (EDVs) with
power-management and other controls that allow them to respond to external commands …

In many multi-agent settings, participants can form teams to achieve collective outcomes that
may far surpass their individual capabilities. Measuring the relative contributions of agents …

Core-selection is a crucial property of rules in the literature of resource allocation. It is also
desirable, from the perspective of mechanism design, to address the incentive of agents to …

Weighted voting is a classic model of cooperation among agents in decision-making
domains. In such games, each player has a weight, and a coalition of players wins the game …

ABSTRACT Plug-in Electric Drive Vehicles (EDVs) are becoming increasingly popular and a
number of auto manufacturers are planning on introducing pure Battery Electric Vehicles …

Submodular functions have been a powerful mathematical model for a wide range of real-
world applications. Recently, submodular functions are becoming increasingly important in …

An agent-based negotiation team is a group of interdependent agents that join together as a
single negotiation party due to their shared interests in the negotiation at hand. The reasons …

The basic notion of false-name-proofness allows for useful mechanisms under certain
circumstances, but in general there are impossibility results that show that false-name-proof …

An important aspect of mechanism design in social choice protocols and multiagent systems
is to discourage insincere and manipulative behaviour. We examine the computational …

Simple coalitional games are a fundamental class of cooperative games and voting games
which are used to model coalition formation, resource allocation and decision making in …